On Friday, January 20 I heard over the radio that Hull House is closing.

Hull House is 123 years old and was founded by Jane Addams, America's first female Nobel Prize Winner -- she won...

Dear Huffington Post Chicago Reader:

I hope you plan on going to a local candidate forum for the upcoming Aldermanic and Mayoral elections. There is no one place to look for upcoming forums but I'm hoping that The Chicago Radicalander will start a listing. In the meantime you...

So I sent the post on Chicago's nonprofits and the opportunity to impact the 2011 Mayoral election to a number of local nonprofit leaders and scholars.

At the same time this conversation is taking place, the Illinois House punted on a move to increase the...

I'm going out a limb and just answer my own question straight away: "No."

I don't see the leaders and managers the thousands of social service, cultural and educational organizations that serve hundreds of thousand of people every week taking much of a role in electing the next Mayor of...

A little more than one year after the October 2 decision to award the 2016 Olympic games to Rio, organizers of No Games Chicago will discuss what happened behind the scenes at a public forum on Tuesday, October 12. "The...

All Chicago is abuzz with the news that Mayor Daley will not seek a 7th term as mayor of Chicago.

We're seeing two major narratives - how great was Daley as a mayor? And who will succeed him?

The list of potential candidates is growing by the hour, with a...

Blago guilty on one count. Prosecution prepares for new trial. That's today's headline.

Corruption in Illinois has been the subject of endless coverage, exposes, satire and jokes for decades.

Here's a popular story that seems to be everywhere on the Internet.

I was in...

Martin Macias, Jr., a credentialed freelance journalist who contributes to Vocalo.org, the online and new media outlet for Chicago Public Radio, was turned back from the Canadian border late Saturday night.

Martin was a lead organizer for No Games Chicago, the all-volunteer citizens group that opposed...

As readers of the Huffington Post know, I was one of the lead organizers for No Games Chicago.

It’s been two weeks since the decision in Copenhagen by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to deny Chicago the 2016 Olympic games.

I was one member of the No Games...

[ Note -- I was one of the three No Games Chicago delegates who traveled to Copenhagen last week to deliver materials and messages to the members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)]

We left Chicago late Monday night, Sept. 28. All that day the news was all about...

No Games Chicago has sent the same team who went to Switzerland In June to meet with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Copenhagen to do it again. I was one of the delegates who went to Lausanne and I'm part of the team...

(Note - This was written on the plan coming home from Geneva, June 19, 2009)

Friday, June 19, 1:20 p.m. local time, Geneva

Our plane has just taken off. The No Games Chicago delegation is safely aboard and we’re on our way home. After nine hours in...

I'm in Lausanne, Switzerland, seven time zones ahead of Chicago, with two other members of the No Games Chicago coalition. Our purpose is to meet with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at their headquarters in order to explain why we believe Chicago should NOT be awarded the 2016...

No Games Chicago is a coalition of social justice activists from across the city who believe that seeking and hosting the 2016 Summer Olympic Games is a terrible waste of precious civic resources and treasure.

This group includes people who have been...

Many computer operating systems now allow you to regularly backup your programs and files. When you install a new program the operating system notes the new program and -- if the worst happens and your computer melts down -- allows you to "Restore" your computer to the point before the...

Chicagoans can look forward to massive city debt, destruction of public parks, insider deals favoring real estate developers and a full frontal assault on civil liberties if we are awarded the 2016 Olympic Games, according to an expert anti-Olympic organizer in town to speak at a rally set for January...

On the eve of the inauguration of Barack Obama to be the 44th President of the United States, a group of citizens met in a theater in Uptown, Chicago to demand accountability from their government.

The city that gave the United States a leader who called for change...

The White House has just announced plans for a $17.4 billion bail out of the auto industry. According to the Institute for Policy Studies, America and European governments have already chipped in an unbelievable $4.1 trillion in total financial bailouts. So what's another $17 or so billion added...

On December 1, 2006 the Chicago Park District signed a contract with the Latin School of Chicago to build an artificial turf soccer facility in the heart of Lincoln Park. This was a deal negotiated...

"The Park District will only cover one third of local park improvements." That's what General Superintendent Tim Mitchell announced at the July meeting of the Chicago Park District. If a community wants a new park or add to an old park, it will...